Metonymy informs the backlit rows of men's shoes waiting for their owners to
return after prayer.
Not exact matches
After a short and awkward
prayer, they
returned to their meeting, and the member and his daughter departed.
@ 200 ton Exactly from the first
prayer to the answer was almost 2000 years, but God never forgot His people and
returned the Jews to Israel
after WW 2 and
returned Jerusalem in 1967, answering the long
prayer «next year in Jerusalem».
After all the evangfundibapticostal exhortations, studies, books and retreats on
prayer, it wasn't until I began learning to sit in silence that healing, peace and hope began to
return.
Bonhoeffer's diary records two different episodes during this brief period: «I do not understand why I am here... The short
prayer in which we thought of our German brothers almost overwhelmed me... If things become more uncertain, I shall not stay in America...» Later,
after his decision to
return home, he wrote, «Since I came on board ship, my mental turmoil about the future has gone.
I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret
prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and
after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I
returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours
after I had gone to my bed.
1928 editorial from the Wall Street Journal, «What America needs today is not Government controls, industrial expansion, or a bumper corn crop; America needs to
return to the day when grandpa took the team out of the field in the early afternoon on Wednesday in order to hitch them to the old spring wagon which grandma put all the children
after she washed their faces shining clean; and they drove off to
prayer meeting in the little white church at the crossroads underneath the oak trees, where everyone believed the Bible, trusted Christ, and loved one another.»
After dinner, having sung a Psalm, they
returned to their conference upon the other questions (which were three in all) till towards evening; at which time, as the master of the family began, so he concluded with
prayer, and I gave them three new questions against their next meeting, which being appointed for time and place, everyone repaired to his own home.36
After many pleas and
prayers, Magistrate Aluko
returned the case file to the Chief Magistrate, as against the plea by monarchs in Iwo axis to strike out the suit.
Shortly
after the
prayer, Ekweremmadu commended the level of reconciliation sweeping through the PDP adding that such development is putting the party on the path to
returning to power come 2019.
A simple two - phrase
prayer expresses thanks for the
return of the spirit to the body
after a night's rest.
Leaving the area, the car jigged its way over the potholed road until we reached the hustle that comes with the community's
return from Mosque
after the mid-day
prayer.